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Hippolytus
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Introductory Notice to Hippolytus.
[243] Or, “close up.”
[244] The words “death of a goat” occur on the margin of the ms.
[245] A similar statement is made, on the authority of Alcmæon, by Aristotle in his Histor. Animal., i. 2.
[246] Μαννῇ is the word in the text. But manna in the ordinary acceptation of the term can scarcely be intended. Pliny, however, mentions it as a proper name of grains of incense and resin. The Abbe Cruice suggests the very probable emendation of μάλθῃ, which signifies a mixture of wax and resin for caulking ships.
Chapter XXXII.—Imitations of Thunder, and Other Illusions.
[247] δίαυλον in the text has been altered into κελανὸν. The translator has followed the latter.
[248] Or “indissoluble,” or “inseparable.”
Chapter XXXIII.—The Burning Æsculapius; Tricks with Fire.
[249] Marsilius Ficinus (in his Commentary on Plotinus, p. 504 et seq., vol. ii. Creuzer’s edition), who here discusses the subject of demons and magical art, mentions, on the authority of Porphyry, that sorcerers had the power of evoking demons, and that a magician, in the presence of many, had shown to Plotinus his guardian demon (angel). This constitutes the Goetic department of magic.
[250] Or, “full of pitch.”
[251] Μυρσίνῃ. This word is evidently not the right one, for we have (σμύρνῃ) myrrh mentioned. Perhaps the word μάλθῃ, suggested in a previous passage, is the one employed here likewise.
[252] Or, “makes speedy preparation;” or, “resorts to the contrivance of.”
[253] The words in italics are added by the Abbe Cruice. There is obviously some hiatus in the original.
[254] Or, “the refuse of.”
Chapter XXXIV.—The Illusion of the Sealed Letters; Object in Detailing These Juggleries.
[255] In the margin of the ms. occur the words, “concerning the breaking of the seals.”
[256] Or, “exposed their method of proceeding in accordance with the system of Gnosticism.” Schneidewin, following C. Fr. Hermann, is of opinion that what follows is taken from Celsus’ work on magic, to which Origen alludes in the Contra Celsum, lib. i. p. 53 (Spencer’s edition). Lucian (the well-known satirist), in his Alexander, or Pseudomantis, gives an account of the jugglery of these magicians. See note, chap. xlii. of this book.
[257] Or, “ground”—φορυκτῆς, (al.) φορυτῆς, (al.) φρυκτῆς, (al.) φρικτῆς.
[258] Or, “insert.”
[259] Or “taught,” or “adduced,” or “delivered.”
[260] This sentence is obviously out of place, and should properly come in probably before the words, “These contrivances, however, I hesitated to narrate,” etc., a few lines above in this chapter. The Abbe Cruice conjectures that it may have been written on the margin by some reader acquainted with chemistry, and that afterwards it found its way into the text.
[261] Some read φανερὸν for παρὸν.
[262] What cyanus was is not exactly known. It was employed in the Homeric age for the adornment of implements of war. Whatever the nature of the substance be, it was of a dark-blue colour. Some suppose it to have been blue steel, other, blue copper. Theophrastus’ account of it makes it a stone like a dark sapphire.
[263] Or, “with the head downwards.”
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